Fuck. I've been sick for a week so this is gonna suck even more than usual. I barely even reached out for lists. I didn't even write any reviews for months. I wouldn't blame you for not reading this blog anymore.
But I got into a new lab this year and now I'm studying bone fractures and burn recovery so that's good and at least gives me a good excuse for not doing more.
Also my band Great Unclean Ones w/ dudes from Brother Ares and Vile Desecration recorded our first demo that's still being mixed so that was good.
Anyway enough moping and dead promises (more writeups next year I swear), here's some lists, somehow presented even more lazily than years past.
Spencer Moore (Inferi, Chasm of Teeth, Phobos)
Mikey Owin (Ascent of Everest, Lawndry, Evil Bebos, possibly Boo Dudes)
Waleid Elchaer (Obelisk)
Blake Conley (Droneroom, Dronestore Cowboy, ex-Brother Ares, The Minor Second)
Josh Byrd (Working in Retail, Bosh Jyrd)
Aaron Hortman (Vile Desecration)
Zan Greene (Moru)
Blake Dellinger (Flummox, Unorthodox)
Jody Lester (Bled to Submission, Bee Bong)
Isaiah Rodriguez (Bled to Submission)
Me, Court Reese (Great Unclean Ones, Cøurtney)
3. Death Metal in general.
It was a good year. Bands like Tomb Mold, Innumerable Forms, Extremity, Horrendous, our own Mortius and Inferi boys, Psycroptic, Corpsessed, Outer Heaven, Convulsing, Skinless, Hyperdontia, I think even my old bedfellows Act of Impalement are considered death metal and put out an absolute fucking banger of a debut of an LP.
2. Messa - Feast for Water
I really thought this was gonna be #1 for months, since it came out in April. These Italians build on their last album by expanding their "scarlet doom" sound's range, from noir jazz a la Bohren and Der Club of Gore to rifftastic doom rock all the way to blastbeats, all perfectly cohesed from one section to the next until you realize just how satisfying this journey of an album has been.
1. Entropia - Vacuum
This fucking album, once I started listening I kept having to come back over and over to hear every hidden part. That isn't to say this is technical or progressive, this is pure psychedelic black metal. They start heavy but then they switch to what feels like Krautrock in ways that really make you boogie. The shifting time signatures and increasing of on- and offbeats will fuck with your head even if stone sober. Psychedelic black metal is hard to come by and these Pollocks do it just as well if not better than Oranssi Pazuzu themselves.
Honorable Mentions
Valdur - Goat of Iniquity
Kim Petras -Turn Off the Light, Vol. 1
A Forest of Stars - Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes
Svrm - Лихиї вітри стогнуть без упину
Bonehunter - Children of the Atom
Oxygen Destroyer - Bestial Manifestations of Malevolence and Death
Sofi Tukker - Treehouse
Droneroom - Jesus Year
Bled to Submission - Vermin
Terrible People s/t
The Body - I Have Fought Against It, But I Can’t Any Longer.
Thanks for sticking around. Here's to another year of music.
But I got into a new lab this year and now I'm studying bone fractures and burn recovery so that's good and at least gives me a good excuse for not doing more.
Also my band Great Unclean Ones w/ dudes from Brother Ares and Vile Desecration recorded our first demo that's still being mixed so that was good.
Anyway enough moping and dead promises (more writeups next year I swear), here's some lists, somehow presented even more lazily than years past.
Spencer Moore (Inferi, Chasm of Teeth, Phobos)
Mikey Owin (Ascent of Everest, Lawndry, Evil Bebos, possibly Boo Dudes)
Waleid Elchaer (Obelisk)
Blake Conley (Droneroom, Dronestore Cowboy, ex-Brother Ares, The Minor Second)
Breeders-all nerve
facs-negative houses
low- double negative
mary lattimore hundreds of days
meg baird + mary Lattimore- ghost forest
lingua ignota- all die
marisa anderson-cloud cover
Daughters-you won’t get what you want
tender mercy- leave little room
hot snakes- Jericho sirens
the body- I have fought against it, but I can’t any longer
body/head-the switch
luna honey-peace will grind you down
loma-s/t
savak- beg your pardon
kurt vile- hold it in
Courtney Barnett-tell me how you really feel
hc mcentire- lionheart
frankie cosmos- vessel
rolling blackouts coastal fever- hope downs
Honorable Mentions:
knife knights- 1 time mirage
Daniel bachman- the morning star
bill frisell- music is
suss- ghost box
jaye jayle- no trail
emma ruth rundle- on dark horses
Dylan Carlson-conquistador
Josh Byrd (Working in Retail, Bosh Jyrd)
Aaron Hortman (Vile Desecration)
Zan Greene (Moru)
Blake Dellinger (Flummox, Unorthodox)
Jody Lester (Bled to Submission, Bee Bong)
Isaiah Rodriguez (Bled to Submission)
Me, Court Reese (Great Unclean Ones, Cøurtney)
3. Death Metal in general.
It was a good year. Bands like Tomb Mold, Innumerable Forms, Extremity, Horrendous, our own Mortius and Inferi boys, Psycroptic, Corpsessed, Outer Heaven, Convulsing, Skinless, Hyperdontia, I think even my old bedfellows Act of Impalement are considered death metal and put out an absolute fucking banger of a debut of an LP.
2. Messa - Feast for Water
I really thought this was gonna be #1 for months, since it came out in April. These Italians build on their last album by expanding their "scarlet doom" sound's range, from noir jazz a la Bohren and Der Club of Gore to rifftastic doom rock all the way to blastbeats, all perfectly cohesed from one section to the next until you realize just how satisfying this journey of an album has been.
1. Entropia - Vacuum
This fucking album, once I started listening I kept having to come back over and over to hear every hidden part. That isn't to say this is technical or progressive, this is pure psychedelic black metal. They start heavy but then they switch to what feels like Krautrock in ways that really make you boogie. The shifting time signatures and increasing of on- and offbeats will fuck with your head even if stone sober. Psychedelic black metal is hard to come by and these Pollocks do it just as well if not better than Oranssi Pazuzu themselves.
Honorable Mentions
Valdur - Goat of Iniquity
Kim Petras -Turn Off the Light, Vol. 1
A Forest of Stars - Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes
Svrm - Лихиї вітри стогнуть без упину
Bonehunter - Children of the Atom
Oxygen Destroyer - Bestial Manifestations of Malevolence and Death
Sofi Tukker - Treehouse
Droneroom - Jesus Year
Bled to Submission - Vermin
Terrible People s/t
The Body - I Have Fought Against It, But I Can’t Any Longer.
Thanks for sticking around. Here's to another year of music.
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